All Films

11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried

1989 • 52 min

Moving documentary looks back on the remarkable life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and combines the tragedy of his untimely death with the rememberances of those who knew him best and those who knew him not at all. James Earl Jones reviews the brief life of JFK. His triumphs. His failures. His inpiration and contribution to our history. The story is told through previously unseen and rare video and home movies. and by many people who were there, ordinary people. The story is built around the exclusive historic videotape from WFAA, the dallas station whose studios are located so near the infamouse "grassy knoll" where the President was shot. We see the events as they happened, from JFK's arrival in Dallas to his funeral in Washington four days later.

Tren Gaucho

1989 • 21 min

Short film by Gabriela David based on a story by Juan José Manauta

Spectators

1989 • 6 min • Germany

Based on a true incident involving a fatal riot at a Brussels football stadium, Spectators explores the behavior of crowds and the manipulation of the masses. At once ambiguous and deeply revealing, the film captures the emotional state of an audience gradually losing control.

Nocturne 1931

1989 • 20 min • Soviet Union

...Although he signed a confession to what he was accused of, he remained the honest and decent person he had been all his life.

Aisles of Doom

1989 • 6 min

In a town, there's a shop called the Plaza Discount Center, featuring toys of all kinds. It should be a place children love, and it would be save for its shopkeeper, Grendel T.W. Ulcerous. He's evil, but only the children know it, and no one listens to them. We watch what Grendel does to a couple of them. Then, one day, a stranger in a yellow rain slicker comes to town. A confrontation follows. Is it the end of Grendel?

Memórias de Classe

1989 • 39 min • Brazil

Documentary about the daily life and struggle of workers from the 1930s generation in Brazil. Told through the memories of a feminist and four union members, the film shows the different faces of the workers' organization experience at that time, from Vargas' influence to communism, culminating in the common trait of their relationship with the workers' bases.

The End of the World

1989 • 57 min • Poland

The monotonous everyday life of an elderly couple is recorded almost silently in a time frame of three days. A woman and a man who have lived their whole lives together no longer have anything in common, apart from habit and the arguments that separate them.

Morbid Angel: Live Madness '89

1989 • 44 min

Live show, Grindcrusher tour, 1989.

The Johnstown Flood

1989 • 26 min • United States of America

On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very heavy rains and poor maintenance by the dam's owners. The burst dam sent a wall of water and debris, 40 feet high and half a mile wide, 14 miles downstream to the bustling industrial city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2000 people lost their lives in the disaster. This documentary tells the story, and tells us that the disaster was easily avoidable.

Sisyphos

1989 • 7 min • East Germany, Germany

Sisyphus has been condemned by Zeus to roll a stone up the mountain. With difficulty he moves it upwards, the colossus regularly rolls back. Sisyphus ages, the stone weathers. They are attuned to each other. Sisyphus accidentally pushes too hard and the stone rolls over the hilltop into the abyss. Sisyphus misses the stone.

Classic Striptease and Glamour Films 17

1989 • 56 min

SWEATER GIRLS. 15 rare TITBITS provide the antipasti for 7 great classic strip films with JANE REYNOLDS, JENNIE LEE, SHERRIE KNIGHT, LEE GERMAINE and LILLIAN PARKER in lusty good form.

The Witch Who Turned Pink

1989 • 25 min • United States of America

The story concerns Jennifer, a green witch who was especially known for her green thumb - "her garden made her the most famous witch in all of witchdom."

Newsreel 1989: The Double Hell

1989 • 17 min

The first film about people living with HIV/AIDS in Bulgaria. А powerful and deeply moving documentary that exposes the harsh treatment faced by people living with HIV/AIDS in Bulgaria at the hands of the state, medical institutions, and society at large. Told through the voices of several HIV-positive men, healthcare professionals (including gay cardiologist Chavdar Dragoychev), and poet Miryana Basheva, the film is a powerful call for compassion and justice.

Cruises

1989 • 8 min • France

A collage film in three parts, interlacing films through genres and sources of various eras.

Grief in a Snuffbox

1989 • 51 min • Soviet Union

Based on the work of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak “Woe to Fear - Happiness Cannot See.”

Triangle Survey

1989 • 54 min • Japan

The work of throwing the vector of one's own emotions into the heart of another person, and the work of "surveying" a disorderly land, maybe infinitely similar. Yamanaka, an aspiring novelist, moves into the lodgings of his friend Nagai. Nagai's younger sister, Yae, also comes to Tokyo, and the three of them have three different vectors to throw. However, through the making of Yae's video, they gradually come to understand each other's feelings. The director's skill is excellent, making the most of the characters by placing them in the right places. Through trivial everyday events, the film portrays three people who have been unable to communicate with each other coming to terms.

Milwaukee County Zoo

1989 • 27 min • United States of America

Take a tour with the staff of the Milwaukee County Zoo.

A Call to Arms

1989 • 22 min

A woman dressed in armour sleeps on the floor of a dark, sunlit room. As she sleeps dreams and memoires unravel in her head. In the final light of day she wakes herself and prepares for ‘battle’… A Call to Arms is an allegory of the emotional and practical struggles of the artist. It also aims to overcome this turmoil with a new mythopoetic legend, differing in purpose and conclusion from those traditionally offered. It pillages a number of tales and images of conflict which form part of our collective memory, and challenges these by placing women as central and powerful figures. Pageantry, flourishing banners and other emblems of war persist but an unusual serenity and poise underlies these suggestions of aggression and battle.

Dead Cat

1989 • 23 min

A young man enters a psychosexual nightmare after his cat dies.

What Is Going On Here?!!

1989 • 9 min • Soviet Union

About a boy and his lyrical perception of reality. At night, he, along with his cat writes poetry and notices unusual things that always happen to those who believe in them and are waiting for the magic to happen. Imagination draws amazing pictures that give the main characters a lot of experience and good mood.

Amok Assault Video

1989 • 60 min

Made in 1989, Amok Assault Video is considered one of the progenitors of the video mixtape movement, a DIY culture of fan-made, hand-traded VHS tapes containing bizarre compilations of material found on television and beyond. The schizophrenic rhythm and selection of material emulates the channel-clicking of a spectacle-hungry TV viewer.

Difficult People: How to Deal With Them

1989 • 37 min • United States of America

An overview on different difficult personality types and how to deal with them in personal and professional settings.

Travestito

1989 • 48 min

In Italy in the 1970s, L'altra domenica, a variety show hosted by Renzo Arbore, aired on national television every Sunday. Highly popular, its ground-breaking act was a trio of drag queens who called themselves Le Sorelle Bandiera (The Flag Sisters). They were a sensation - their signature song Fatti più in là became a national chart hit and the group a household name. This documentary tells the story of the act and its principal cast member, Tito LeDuc.

Sss

1989 • 6 min

Marina Abramovic collaborated with videomaker Charles Atlas on this striking work of autobiographical performance. Abramovic delivers a monologue that traces a concise personal chronology. This brief narrative history, which references her past in the former Yugoslavia, her performance work, and her collaboration with and separation from Ulay, is intercut with images of Abramovic engaged in symbolic gestures and ritual acts—scrubbing her feet, staring like Medusa as snakes writhe on her head. Closing her litany with the phrase "time past, time present," Abramovic invokes the personal and the mythological in a poignant affirmation of self.